ANNOUNCING

NOW OPEN

• Weddings

• Rehearsal Dinners

• Bar/Bat Mitzvahs

• Seminars

• Business Meetings

• Trade Shows

• Presenfations

• Bridal & Baby Showers

• Receptions

Make your experience
the ultimate! Fine
cuisine, and beautiful
meeting rooms
capable of servicing
50 to 400 guests are
designed to enhance
any occasion.

Excalibur also offers
state of the art Audio/
Visual Capabilities
and an Oversized
Dance Floor.

Now booking for
Breakfast Meetings,
and Lunch and
Dinner Events.

988Th rrcin[lin Pl. at hierikwesiern & 12 Mile in Soutiltielci, MI 48034
048) 358-3355 • •fax (248) 358-3227

7/24
1998
94 . Detroit Jewish News

The 50th year celebration will be
quite a gala for the lassies, as over 300
volunteers locally put on Brandeis
Women's 37th annual Used Book Sale
... Always an awaited event because of
the prized selections discovered.
The books, magazines and records
go on sale Aug. 5-12 at Tel-12 Mall,
Telegraph and 12 Mile ... Preview
night, Wednesday, Aug. 5, is 9:30 to
midnight, with folks getting their
picks of the lot ... $5 preview tickets
will be at the mall all day ... Rest of
the time, admission is free.
ONE OF THE most varied names
on menus is that of a very popular
appetizer ... seen spelled four different
ways ... Portobella, portobello, porta-
bello and portabella.
Reid Ashton, owner of the Golden
Mushroom, says that the spelling on
packages of mushrooms his fine din-
ing restaurant receives is portobella
According to the Food Lover's Compan-
ion, a comprehensive definition of
over 4,000 food, wine and culinary
terms, it can be spelled either of two
ways ... Portobello or portobella.
THINGS PEOPLE Talk About ...
Peppered tuna sashimi at Mon Jin Lau
in Troy ... No high chairs for children
at Eurasian Grill in West Bloomfield
Rollup sandwich trays at Vineyards
in Farmington Hills ... Plastic bag ties
at Kroger ... Kidney pie at Ye Olde
Steak House in Windsor.
Difference in Thai food at Orchid
Cafe in Troy ... Continued false
rumors about Bread Basket in Oak
Park being sold ... Beans & Cornbread
in Southfield to open another place in
August on Eight Mile and Southfield,
and its sweet potato muffins.
Broiled whitefish at Stage & Co. ...
Songstress Suzie Marsha back Fridays
and Saturdays with the Warren Corn-
mission at Excalibur in Southfield.
What happened to Chef Keith
Famie, formerly of Forte in Birming-
sal
ham ... Gracious hello and come back
soon by Maitre D' Achille Bianci at Too
Chez in Novi ... Fisherman's Feast din-
ner every Friday through July at Ritz-
Carlton in Dearborn.
Rollback of many prices to 1977 as
Lelli's on Woodward celebrates its
59th birthday ... Three-act - mystery
play with Saturday dinner at Dave and
Buster's chain restaurant in Utica ...
Farmington Souvlaki Coney Island on
Orchard Lake Road still called that
when everything else — menus, T-
shirts, etc. — say Leo's Souvlaki
Coney Island ... Paying for meals with
pesos permitted at Old Mexico in
West Bloomfield. C l

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